Saturday, February 27, 2016

Names of freed slaves put into database

Larry Terrell
Crudup can trace his ancestors back to slaves working on a plantation in North
Carolina. But the Round Rock, Texas, resident doesn’t know what
happened to those slaves when they were freed after the Civil War, or whether
he’s related to any of the Crudups living on the East Coast. That’s why Crudup
is participating Sunday in a national project to put the records of freed
slaves into a free, searchable online database. The project uses records
gathered by the federal government when it started the Freedmen’s Bureau in
1865. • Article